Klootwijk, Chris2015-12-101871-174Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/53146The prevailing pole path for Australia/Gondwana implies that contact between northwestern Gondwana and southern Laurussia was established not before the Late Carboniferous. This view is challenged by palaeogeographers and also by an alternative pole pathKeywords: Carboniferous; Devonian; geological record; Gondwana; orogenic belt; paleoenvironment; paleogeography; Australia Australia; Carboniferous; Devonian; Gondwana; Laurasia; Pole path201010.1016/j.palwor.2009.12.0042016-02-24